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  • National Survey Data Bite
  • 06.18.21

% of IR Offices Participating in Professional Development Related to Communicating Information

  • by eAIR

IR spends a significant amount of time collecting, managing, and analyzing data. But one of the most important tasks is our ability to accurately communicate that information in formats that can be consumed by our stakeholders. To help build staff reporting and data visualization skills, their IR Office should provide professional development opportunities and staff should take advantage of those opportunities, but how many do? In the 2018 AIR National Survey of IR Offices, we asked the office leader to indicate which staff members participated in training. We found that, on average, 28% of IR Office leaders participated in training related to communicating information compared to 24% of Assistant/Associate Directors, and 22% of analysts.

When we disaggregated by institutional sector, we find that slightly more public 2-year IR offices participated in this type of training compared to public 4-year institutions and private, not-for-profit, 4-year institutions.

Bar Chart showing percent of IR Offices Participating in Professional Development Related to Communicating Information

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What is the National Survey of IR Offices?

The National Survey is a nationally representative, longitudinal study of the function of institutional research (IR) in higher education.

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Tabular representation of chart graphic: % of IR Offices Participating in Professional Development Related to Communicating Information by Staff Role and Sector

Office Leader Assist/Assoc Director Analytical Staff Technical Staff
Aggregate 28% 24% 22% 11%
Public 2-year 34% 33% 21% 4%
Public 4-year 31% 24% 24% 18%
Private not-for-profit 4-year 23% 20% 20% 4%

 

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